Todos los capítulos de Reborn Before the Mark: I Married His Wolfless Uncle: Capítulo 281 - Capítulo 290

A wagon cleared the refuge turn too slowly, and Lorelai felt every watching second sharpen.Lorelai stayed beside the slowest wagon until it cleared the refuge turn. Wounded civilians lay beneath blankets behind the driver, and the enemy was close enough that every delay scraped at her nerves.A keeper told her one exit had been lost to rubble.“Then move them,” Lorelai said. “The trap is not worth a single civilian.”No one argued after that. The refuge emptied around her: an injured man carried on a door, a woman clutching medicine to her chest, children trying not to stare at the dust gathering above the outer road.Lorelai checked the rooms once and found them empty. That was the only confirmation she needed.The false withdrawal still had to look plausible, but she refused to spend lives polishing the deception. The civilians cleared away the most obvious signs of coalition movement and left the ruin looking negl

The bridge report reached Lorelai while the false corridor was still open.“Rear span collapsed,” the runner said. “Karl is on this side with part of the volunteers. The rest are stranded beyond the break.”Lorelai looked toward the sleeping Node and rejected the easiest answer before anyone offered it.Waking the network could save minutes at the bridge. It could also expose the trap before Valerian committed enough of his army to make the risk worthwhile.“Use the ruins,” she said.The old passage was narrow and ugly, but it connected the stranded soldiers to the coalition side without asking the Node to solve the problem for them. Karl’s presence warmed the mark with the agreed signal that he was alive and holding; Lorelai returned only that she was working.The decision left both of them where they had chosen to stand.***The ruins punished speed. Broken stone pinched the passage u

Karl caught the Greyhaven signal above the prisoner column before the Noctis guard dragged it down. One flash was enough.He was still on the broken side of the corridor with fewer fighters than he wanted and more civilians behind him than he could risk. The collapsed bridge had cut his force in two. Valerian’s column was moving through the ruins ahead. Karl looked at the wolves nearest him.“I’m going for the prisoners.”One soldier glanced toward the broken span. “With how many?”“Only those who can move fast and come back carrying someone.”No Alpha command entered the words. No pressure rolled through the pack bond. Eight stepped forward.Karl nodded once. “You choose to come, you choose to turn back if the route closes.” No one left.They crossed the split line through the outer ruins where the stone still gave them cover. The prisoner column was close enough now that Ka

Karl met the first Noctis soldier beneath a broken arch. The man came through the dust with two others behind him, expecting the courtyard to be empty. It was not.Karl caught the first blade on his forearm guard, turned the strike, and drove the attacker sideways into the stone. One of the volunteers beside him took the second man. The third tried to slip past toward the inner passage. Karl blocked him with his shoulder.“Not through here.”The soldier swung low. Karl stepped back, let the blade miss, and struck once across the man’s wrist. Steel hit the ground.That was the real task: getting the isolated units through the ruins route, not winning the courtyard in one rush.Buying enough time for people cut off by the collapsed bridge to become a line again.“East gap is open!” a runner shouted.Three wolves emerged through the broken wall, then five more, taking position without waiting for command. Ka

The last royal standard disappeared from the passage, and Lorelai lowered her hand to the Heart Node.It woke beneath her palm with pressure rather than light. The sensation climbed through her wrist and settled behind her shoulder as the network answered across Avelune, Greyhaven, Whitecliff, and Myrathis.The false corridor began to close around the army that had followed Valerian inside, but a civilian wagon was still near the danger line. Lorelai held the boundary short and watched through the slit until the rear wheel cleared.Only then did she let the passage finish closing. Stone groaned beyond the chamber, and relief hit her so suddenly that her knees softened.The trap had worked, but the danger was not over.The sound outside changed first. The single mass of pursuit broke into scattered collisions: boots sliding on stone, shouted orders cut short, steel striking from angles Noctis had not expected. Allied forces were attacking from posit